The prosecution yesterday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that the attacks on protesters during the July uprising were not isolated incidents but part of a coordinated and systematic campaign of atrocities directed against civilians.

Transparency International Bangladesh has raised concern over the government’s decision to keep military officers, accused by the International Crimes Tribunal of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and torture during the fallen authoritarian regime, in military custody in the cantonment area.

Health experts say higher AMR rates can lead to more critical illnesses, increased treatment failures

Several advisers to the interim government are conspiring to turn the administration partisan, claimed Jamaat-e-Islami Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher yesterday.

BNP policymakers say; party to meet CA, CEC to warn them

At least 16 people were killed and several others injured after a devastating fire broke out at a chemical warehouse and an adjacent garment factory unit in the capital’s Mirpur yesterday.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs has extended the deadline for hajj registration until October 16, according to a press release signed by Md Abubakar Siddique, public relations officer at the ministry, yesterday.

Teachers from non-government MPO-listed institutions continued their indefinite work abstention for the third consecutive day yesterday, warning that they would go on a hunger strike if the government failed to meet their demands.

Police have arrested a madrasa director in Kurigram’s Ulipur upazila on charges of raping a student.

A local Jubo Dal activist was hacked to death by miscreants in Kachua upazila of Bagerhat early yesterday.

Three children drowned in a pond during a wedding ceremony at Chanpur Tea Garden in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj yesterday afternoon.

A Dhaka tribunal yesterday sentenced a man to 44 years’ rigorous imprisonment in absentia for abducting and raping a student of Viqarunnisa Noon School and College eight years ago.

Security has been tightened around the US Embassy in Dhaka’s Baridhara diplomatic zone following intelligence information about a potential attack.

The Ex-Forces Association, a platform of former military and paramilitary personnel, yesterday urged the government to try accused army officers under military law in coordination with the International Crimes Tribunal.

The 20-bed hospital in Kuakata has once again been left without doctors, virtually suspending healthcare services for both tourists and residents.

Campaigns for the Rajshahi University Central Students’ Union (Rucsu), hall union, and Senate elections ended at midnight today across the Rajshahi University campus.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the relevant authorities to publish a gazette asking ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 261 others to appear on November 11 in a sedition case.

For two long years, an eerie quiet hung over the schoolyard of Bawani Tea Garden Primary School in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila. The bell that once rang every morning had gathered rust.

World Food Programme (WFP) acting Executive Director Carl Skau has reaffirmed its commitment to mobilising food aid for 1.3 million Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh, saying the crisis remains one of the Rome-based UN agency’s top agenda.

At least five dengue patients died while 841 others were hospitalised in the 24 hours till 8:00am yesterday.